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Linda Park, Ensign Hoshi Sato of the “Star Trek: Enterprise” series, will be at Trek Expo at the
UMAC on Sunday. COURTESY
By KAREN SHADE World Scene Writer
Published: 6/7/2008 2:15 AM
Last Modified: 6/7/2008 2:39 AM
Linda Park of 'Enterprise' comes to this year's Trek Expo convention
"Star Trek: Enterprise's" Linda Park will visit Tulsa Sunday for Trek Expo 2008. It'll be her first trip to Oklahoma.
Call it just one more step in a new life the actress, who played Ensign Hoshi Sato for four seasons, has established in her post sci-fi world.
She hasn't, however, forgotten the fans.
"To be honest, I don't do that many conventions and haven't done one in two years," she said in a recent phone interview from her home in Los Angeles. "So, it's nice to get back in touch with the fans."
That should come easy for the communications officer of a Starfleet craft like the Enterprise. Although the show ran from 2001-05 in syndication, "Enterprise" the series is chronologically set years before James T. Kirk and his crew took the bridge in the original "Star Trek" series, which was created by Gene Roddenberry in the 1960s.
But like her on-screen persona, Park is an academic sort who got her star-flyer gig almost straight out of school. Hoshi was a teacher recruited by the captain into Starfleet. Park had completed her bachelor of fine arts degree from Boston University only one year before she was cast in the most recent series in the iconic franchise.
In the first few days of filming, "I was frightened through all of it, and I used it to say, 'OK, this is a gift the universe has given me,' " she said.
That uncertainly went to good use as the character Hoshi dealt
with her own fears of exploring new worlds, discovering new beings and learning about everything that books cannot teach.
In her own experience, Park has found that life and "Star Trek" flow in cycles.
"The mantle has to be, I think, passed down," she said. "The only way to rejuvenate something is to have it seen through fresh eyes."
Park will not be part of the "Star Trek" movie in the works by J.J. Abrams (TV's "Alias," "Mission Impossible III"). Currently set for release in 2009, the movie follows the early years of Kirk and his crew.
"Abrams seems like the perfect person. It seems that he would pay homage to what 'Star Trek' is and completely revitalize it for a new world."
After "Enterprise" went off the air in 2005, Park did some theater in New York City, then returned to Los Angeles to do a season on NBC's "Raines" and then on to ABC's now-canned "Women's Murder Club." But newly engaged and planning a move to New York, she hopes to get back into live theater and do some film work.
"I would really like to go back to my roots. I feel like that's good," she said. "I feel scared. I feel like I don't know how to do it anymore ... and I always feel like, usually, if I'm scared to do something, I think it's time to do it."
Trek Expo 2008 wil be
at the Union Multipurpose
Activity Center, 6836 S.
Mingo Road. Tickets start
at $20. For more about
participants or tickets, call
369-0650 or go to www.tulsaworld.com/trekexpo.
Karen Shade 581-8334
karen.shade@tulsaworld.com
By KAREN SHADE World Scene Writer
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